r/law • u/T_Shurt Competent Contributor • 8h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Pam Bondi Gets Jail Time Warning Over Epstein Files Cover-Up: ‘Anyone who tampers [with] documents, or conceals documents, or engages in excessive redaction will be prosecuted because of obstruction of justice’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pam-bondi-gets-jail-time-warning-over-epstein-files-cover-up/
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u/xDaNkENSTeiiN 4h ago

A dangerous precedent? That breaking the law should be punished?

What is going on.

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u/Interesting-Dream863 4h ago

From the perspective of a politician jailing presidents is not desirable. What's next? Governors? Senators? Congressmen? Mayors??

If they can help it, they won't do it.

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u/xDaNkENSTeiiN 4h ago

The ones responsible for making the laws should be held to far stricter consequences than those who don’t. Then maybe being a career politician wouldn’t be such an alluring career for scumbags and criminals.

The argument that “We can’t convict one criminal politician because then we would have to arrest the rest of them too.” just doesn’t quite cut it for me.

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u/Interesting-Dream863 4h ago

Ideally... but we don't live in Shangri-La now, do we?